We're looking at implementing a VDI solution where I work. Currently, we run a mostly Linux shop with Windows clients (Samba PDC too). We've been evaluating a VDI solution for use and was wondering ...

Due to past (bad) experience resulting from the GCJ stuff being provided by default on certain distributions, I've always traditionally installed the official Sun Java package on servers.
On Ubuntu ...

I'm trying to upgrade RAM in a Sun T5120 server, replacing 2GB (Sun P/N: 501-7953-01) with 8GB DIMMs (Sun P/N: 511-1262-01).
When bringing up the host system, I get the following errors on the ILOM:
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The Sun Fire X4600 M2 Servers Service Manual says installing a shorting jumper across the P20 header pins will reset the SP password and clear the BIOS password. I installed the jumper then powered up ...

Question says it all. I would like to use SUN Glassfish 2.0x server as a reverse-proxy server, so that when someone hits this server, he/she is transparently redirected to an internal web site, which ...

I want to add a user (from Sun IDM to Active Directory) to more than one group.
The command memberOf: CN=AAA,OU=AAA,DC=AAA,DC=AAA is for only one and I want to add a second one immediatly after the ...

Is it possible in Sun Grid Engine to have array jobs where each subtask has a unique requirement? For example I may have an array job for which each task has a small unique requirement but I do not ...

I have a couple (well a lot more than that..but for the sake of the brevity.) of sun enterprise 250 servers with solaris installed on them. I want to know if any version/flavor/distro of linux can be ...

I have some Sun Fire X4150 servers with a very old BIOS release (1ADQW015), which seems to have some compatibility problems with WMware ESX Server 3.5 and Windows 2008 R2 virtual machines; so I want ...

I configured Nagios to receive passive service checks via SNMP traps from SUN remote management boards (ILOM/ALOM in their slang).
This works great for ILOM-based SUN servers, but i couldn't find out ...

Lets say I have an rpool with etc/ as a regular directory within it and now I want to create a separate zfs rpool/etc, obviously inheriting all the data I had in original /etc.
What would be the most ...

I've got a customer with a remotely-hosted X4200 and all they know is that there is an amber alarm light on the front of the server. I've been asked to identify the offending component (if any) and ...

I've got a collection of SunFire hardware here, X2100, X2200 and X4250. Sun seem to have made it spectacularly difficult to find MIBs that I can use with net-snmp to monitor the state of the hardware ...

Title says it all really - I have a bunch of servers in our lab that I want to set the locator LED on (so they can be identified and serviced). However the iLOM IP addresses are not accessible (the ...

I've installed Sun Java 6 manually since Canonical has removed it from its package repo (I use Ubuntu 12.04). Now I have the following problem: when I want to install a package which depends on Java ...

I have this machine, which doesn't have installed "make" utility, and I need it in order to install other utilities, have you folks done this before on a Solaris 10 machine?
This is the output I got ...

I'm monitoring Sun hardware using SNMP to gather information from the LOM card. One of the datapoints I'm monitoring is a voltage status MIB which alerts if any of the internal voltages becomes too ...

Is there no yum repository with Sun's JRE available (don't really need the JDK)? From looking around everyone simply recommends manually downloading and installing the binary that Sun/Oracle provides. ...

Anyone got bestpractices for how to mount a nfsshare from Sun(Oracle) Unified Storage?
We run the usual hard and nfs4 on debian squeeze.
We run our VMs through this NFS share with Xen.
When our SAN ...

i've running BIOS/ILOM 1.0 and it sucks with the hyperthreading sync error flood :(
I just got my hands on a nice Sun Fire x64 server but I'm in a bit of a bind. I need BIOS and ILOM files for a Sun ...

Our suite got new carpet this weekend, and as I was moving the machines out of the way I pulled apart the serial adapter. The RJ-45 clip held fast, and the metal body was screwed tight to the machine ...

We have a Sun 4140 running Linux (CentOS 5.5). A disk failed in a software RAID-1 array. We powered off the system and added a two new disks to empty slots in the chassis (we couldn't simply replace ...

we have a Sun Storage Appliance (7110) with a SMB/CIFS share configured. It is joined to our Active Directory. What I am trying to accomplish is: ordinary Domain Users (builtin AD-group) should have ...